Could not agree more with this post.
However, I make little attempt not to react momentarily to a bad beating. I cuss/vent immediately, but then within seconds let it go. Quite often, that’s all I need to do these days to stay fairly chilled. I was trying to push a perceived edge and it backfired – on another day such plays will work.
“...You see the long term vision of your account steadily increasing...”
This. Since joining the CardsChat Freeroll Club, I have paid close attention to my results not just in the CC freerollsbut others offered - i.e I joined ACR about 6 weeks ago as CC encourages members to do so and have now cashed in 5 various FRs there.
I was tending to get down if I failed to cash/gain on a given day but as the weeks have passed (I am now 2 ½ months in)I can see I am consistent. There have been spans where, looking at days of the week for instance over the span of membership,I have cashed almost identically for six of the days of the week, with only one day outpacing the others. And, more importantly, my bankroll has steadily if incrementally increased, day by day and week by week.
As soon as you gain a longer term perspective your game benefits. In the short term you might lose as you try to expand ranges or push edges but those defeats serve a good purpose. So I agree wholeheartedly, when you can take bad beats in your stride you know that your game has definitely progressed.
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